Improvement in shoemakers  pincers



@anni (time ALFREDCLARKE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 113,261, dated April 4, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN SI-AIOEMAKERS PINCERS.

v The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part ofthe same.

I, ALFRED CLARKE, of the city of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania,have invented certain Improvements in Shoemakers Pincers,`of which thefollowing is a specification. 4

. The nature of the invention mainly consists in the construction ofthehead of the hammer, connected with one of the jaws of the pincers ofcircular form, whereby the workman is enabled to get a better leverage,especially in lasting o1' drawing in the loose leather around the toes,producing more perfect work with half the labor necessary in the use ofthe ordinary square head. It also consists in giving a swelled form tothe face of the head, to enable the workman to hold his hand at anyangle and secure the driving of the tack or nail at a single blowwithout the iear ot' striking his finger, securing a perfect clinchingof the tacks or nails as their points strike the last.

It further consists of a roughened face of the hammer, which preventsthe tackor nail slipping when struck.

And it also consists in the construction of the head separate from thejaw, to which it is attached, and confining it by means of a screw cuton its shank, for the purpose ot' using one or more washers under theshoulder of the shank, to vary the height of the face ofthe hammer asmay be desired, and also to provide,

in case of the breakage of the hammer, for combining another with thejaw, thus avoiding the necessity of throwing away the whole tool.

To enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains tomake and use my improved pincers, I will -now give a full descriptionthereof.

In the accompanying drawing which makes a part of this specification-Figure l is a side view ofthe improved pincers.

. Figure 2 is au edge view of the same.

Figure 3 is a side View of the hammer C, detached.

ALike letters in all the igures indicate the same parts. o

A A are the two levers of the pincers, having the usual jaws B B.

G is a hammer, attached to the jaw B', and removable therefrom byconstructing it with ascrew-threaded pin, a, as seen in iig. 3, the jawhaving aifemale thread cut in a corresponding opening.V

I provide, by this construction, as above stated, of repairing the tool,or by connecting a new head in place'of a broken or otherwise defectiveone.

The head of the hammer is made of a circular form, as represented, toenable the workman to use it. to better advantage in drawing in theloose leather around the toe than he could in using a square-headhammer.

The face of the hammer is swelled, to enable the workman to strike theheads of the nails or tacks at different angles without the danger ofturning the nails.

The face is milled or roughened, as represented in fig. 2, to preventthe slipping oi of the heads of the nails or tacks.

What'I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination and arrangement of thecircular head C, having a swelledand roughened face, with the jaw B' of the pincers, substantially in themanner and for the purpose above set forth.

In testimony that the above is my invention I have hereunto set my handand aliixed my seal this 19th day of January, 1871.

ALFRED CLARKE. [In s.]

Witnesses THOMAS J. BEWLEY, STEPHEN UsTIcK.

